EXPERIENCE
*** I have joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an Assistant Research Professor. Information about my work is now available on my UIUC webpage here, and I can be contacted at alipour@illinois.edu
Appointments
Postdoctoral Scholar
University of California, Los Angeles (2021 - Present)
Advisor: Prof. Ertugrul Taciroglu
EDUCATION
University of Virginia (2014 - 2019)
Ph.D. in Civil Engineering - Advisor: Prof. Devin Harris
Dissertation: Deep Learning for Automated Defect Recognition in Critical Infrastructure
Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic) (2008-2010)
M.S. in Civil Engineering - Advisor: Prof. Alireza Rahai
Thesis: Evaluation of the effect of FRP layer characteristics on the Behavior of Steel Plate Shear Walls